found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Ballinger, Margaret; Violet Margaret Livingstone Hodgson; political figure, historian, political activist; born 11 January 1894 in Glascow, Scotland; BA degree from Rhodes University in Grahamstown (1913) and taught history and economics; completed coursework in modern history in Somerville College, Oxford (1917); was founding president of the Liberal Party (1953); provided a rare official voice for her constituents, playing a mediating role between Africans and the apartheid state; became a politically isolated woman in an explosive country; died 07 February 1980 in Cape Town, South Africa)